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%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
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%% Example 8-5-8 on page I-637 in "Basic objects".
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%% Copyright (C) 2022 Frank Mittelbach
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%% It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions
%% of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3c
%% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
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%% See https://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
%%

\documentclass{tlc3exa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{135.0pt}

%StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{tikz}
%StopShownPreambleCommands

\begin{document}
\tikz\path [draw=blue,line width=1pt,->]
   (-2,-0.5) sin  (-1.5,-1) cos (-1,-0.5)
   node[right]{a sinus curve} sin (-0.5,0)
   -- (0,0)
   arc[x radius=1cm, y radius=0.5cm,
       start angle=180, end angle=70]
   node[midway,above,sloped]{the arc} -- (1,1)
   parabola [parabola height=2cm]
   +(1,0) node at (1.5,3.2){a parabola};
\end{document}
